On the inverse source identification problem in $L^\infty$ for fully nonlinear elliptic PDE

Birzhan Ayanbayev, Nikos Katzourakis

Published 2020-05-18Version 1

In this paper we generalise the results proved in [N. Katzourakis, An $L^\infty$ regularisation strategy to the inverse source identification problem for elliptic equations, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 51:2, 1349-1370 (2019)] by studying the ill-posed problem of identifying the source of a fully nonlinear elliptic equation. We assume Dirichlet data and some partial noisy information for the solution on a compact set through a fully nonlinear observation operator. We deal with the highly nonlinear nonconvex nature of the problem and the lack of weak continuity by introducing a two-parameter Tykhonov regularisation with a higher order $L^2$ "viscosity term" for the $L^\infty$ minimisation problem which allows to approximate by weakly lower semicontinuous cost functionals.